Eldara news & patch notes

Eldara — Languages & Quality Update (29 Jul 2026)

✦ New Languages — German & French

• German is roughly 98% complete and French is roughly 97% complete across player-facing game text. THESE WILL CONTINUE TO BE WORKED ON I PROMISE, THESE ARE ROUGH DRAFTS!
• Combat names, tags, damage feedback, spell tooltips, Hunting contracts, titles, Codex entries, settings, and more now adapt to your chosen language.
• A clearer new Language setting has been added under Display Settings, with a themed dark dropdown.
• More languages are planned. This is the beginning of Eldara becoming more accessible to players around the world.
• Translations are still being polished. If you spot missing, incorrect, or mixed-language text, please report it so it can be fixed quickly.

✦ Improvements

• Language switching now refreshes more live UI immediately, including equipped titles, navigation labels, combat headers, inventory/backpack surfaces, and the Codex.
• Codex item cards have been tightened so their names and metadata no longer clip inside the grid.
• Their Max Hit — combat now shows the biggest hit the current enemy can land on you in your current gear. Hover it for the full damage breakdown.
• Repeat Track — a new music-player toggle loops the current song.
• Rebirth confirmation is now a fully themed screen, clearly showing what resets, what carries over, and your new XP, Luck, and gear bonuses.

✦ Fixes

• World Boss loot-pool percentages no longer overflow their cards at high Luck.
• Localized combat names now remain translated when a fight begins or when changing language mid-session.
• Fixed several UI labels that could remain in the previous language after switching.
• A COUPLE OF OPTIMIZATIONS REGARDING FPS! MORE TO COME STILL!

Thank you for helping test this update. Please report any translation issues or UI bugs you find — especially mixed English/German/French text — so we can keep improving it.

☄ The Luck Meteor & the Full Hunting Board

NEW — The Luck Meteor

Once you've maxed every skill (1700 total level), a meteor is no longer wasted XP — it becomes a realm-wide luck storm instead. When one strikes, roll for an hour of boosted drop rates across the entire game:

• 75% chance → +50% drop luck
• 25% chance → +100% drop luck (the rare "Radiant Luck Meteor")

It shows as a green countdown chip under your header. Late-game farming finally has a reason to keep going.

NEW — Hide Completed toggle

The Quests, Achievements, and Upgrades panels each get a Hide completed switch in the header. Flip it on to tuck away finished quests, claimed achievements, and maxed upgrades so you only see what's left to do. Toggle it back any time — nothing's lost.

NEW CONTENT — 12 Hunting contracts

Every material-dropping monster in the realm now has a hunting contract, so grinding one for its loot banks Hunting XP, Hunting Points, and a guaranteed material cache on top of its normal drops. From the Rustbite Scavenger (Lv3) to the Crystalfang Ravager (Lv75) — logs, ores, gems, cloth, herbs, fish, all covered.

FIXES

• Collection log now counts full stacks. A drop of 100+ (arrows, etc.) credited only +1 to your collection — it now records the real amount.
• Stolen Sigil & Pickpocket's Charm tooltips now correctly show "Active" when the trinket is carried in a backpack (the bonus already worked — the label was lying).
• Malzareth's Greaves (and all armour) now show their damage increase on the refine screen, not just defence.
• The Rebirth confirmation no longer claims gathering tools are kept — they reset, and the popup now says so.
• Gear level reads the same everywhere — the Blacksmith, gear tab, and item cards all show your true refinement level in sync.
• The Hunting board is sorted by level again — no more contracts jumping around the list.
• Ammo slot's upgrade pip no longer overlaps the arrow count.

⚜ Rebirth Refinement & the True Best-in-Slot

NEW — Rebirth Refinement

Rebirth now permanently refines every piece of combat gear you wear. Each Rebirth grants +5 refinement to all weapons, armour, rings, amulets and arrows — free, no forging, no gold. At the Rebirth cap that's +50 on every piece, layered on top of whatever you've forged at the anvil.

• Automatic and retroactive. Already reborn? Your gear is already refined the moment you log in — nobody gets left behind.
• A fully-forged, fully-reborn piece now reads +60, and every point is real attack/defence.

BALANCE — Best-in-Slot finally feels like it

• World Boss armour (Hollow Tyrant · Sky Piercer · Malzareth) is now a decisive step up from Legendary gear instead of a sidegrade — the chestpiece alone jumps ~65%.
• Lich Mortality Ring, the game's best ring, massively buffed so it clearly out-classes the tier below.
• Forging to +10 now lands a real capstone bonus. The final refinement is a payoff you can feel, not a rounding error.

QUALITY OF LIFE

• Crack crates straight into your bank. At skill Lv 100, crate materials (ores, logs, fish, bars…) flow to the bank exactly like gathering them — backpacks still take priority.
• Stolen Sigil & Pickpocket's Charm now work from your backpack, not just main inventory. Stop burning an inventory slot to keep a passive alive.
• Storming the Throne now requires Hunting 90 (was 100), so you can level Hunting while running the realm's final dungeon.

FIXES

• The Celestial Meteor timer is no longer buried by popups (Ancient Surge, crate opens, salt activations) — the event message stays readable.

⚜ The Sigil Vigil

NEW — The Sigil Vigil (Hunting Store, 2,500 Hunting Points)

Hunting a tyrant's trophy meant the same four clicks, a few hundred times over: wait for the seal, dig the sigil out, confirm, fight, repeat. No longer. Buy the Vigil and a ⚜ Crests button appears on its store card. Arm the crest of the tyrant you're hunting, and the Vigil stands watch:

• The moment the realm falls quiet, it breaks the seal for you — spends one armed sigil, calls the tyrant, and throws you straight into the fight. Kill it, and the next one is already stirring. A true hands-off hunt.
• Only ARMED crests are ever spent. Arm Malzareth alone and your Varkul and Seraphel sigils stay untouched in your bag. It's a trophy tool, not a sigil shredder.
• It sees sigils in your backpacks, not just your satchel.
• It stands down inside a dungeon — your run is never interrupted, and no sigil is burned on a call you can't answer.
• Toggle it off any time. Stood down means your sigils are safe.

FIXES

• Bank slots no longer overlap. Every slot is now a fixed size — icons and quantities can't collide or render on top of each other, at any bank size.
• Quest reward gear now counts toward your Collection log. Items handed over by a quest were being silently skipped.
• The mastery tooltip no longer vanishes while you read it. The Adventure Log auto-scrolling during combat was yanking it away every swing.
• Void Brew (and every sub-second timer) now shows its real time — anything under 10s reads to one decimal instead of rounding up to "1s".

PERFORMANCE

• Scrolling is smooth. The ambient background layer was being frozen and unfrozen every time you scrolled, and un-freezing a blurred fullscreen layer forced the GPU to redraw the whole thing — once when you started scrolling, once when you stopped. That was the split-second hitch on every scroll. It's gone. Scrolling is still being worked on because it remains slightly laggy.

Eldara — Patch Notes

⚡ Performance — the stutter hunt

This patch targeted the freezes and micro-stutters directly:

• Smooth scrolling — an old anti-tearing mechanism forced the game to restyle the entire page every time a scroll started or stopped, on every tab. It's now scoped to the one background layer it was built for. Scroll feel should be dramatically better everywhere.
• No more interaction freezes — item artwork was being decoded on the game thread the moment it appeared, stalling tab switches and scrolling. All images now decode in the background and load lazily.
• Rhythmic background hitch fixed — the Bone Grinder was rebuilding your entire open tab every 5 seconds, forever. It now updates only what it actually changes.
• Opening and closing the Bank no longer forces a full page re-layout.

🕹️ New Content

• New hunting contract: "Ending the Undying" — Hunting Lv 80: hunt The Undying Lich ×8 for 3,000g plus void crystals, essence, bones and flawed diamonds. Grinding the Lich for its ultra-rare drops now pays Hunting XP and Points the whole way.
• Chapter VIII "The Seal" no longer requires clearing The Eternal Throne — the Ignarath kill requirement already proves apex readiness.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Cremation pet now drops from offline Bone Grinder burning — Bone Grinder owners previously had a 0% offline pet chance (the "cremated 100k bones, no pet" bug). Long sessions now roll fair odds for every bone burned.
• Auto-dungeon fixes — checking story requirements no longer stops your run on Hardcore, and a full satchel now clearly tells you why auto-repeat paused instead of stopping silently.
• Auto-accept contracts no longer fires without the perk — dungeon auto-repeat was renewing hunting contracts for players who hadn't bought Auto-Accept.
• Cremation now benefits from skill-speed buffs (Ash Salts, the Hunting Store Skill-Speed Boon, and more) like every other skill — and bone cards show the buffed time with a hover breakdown of every active bonus.
• Removed the obsolete "Stop burying when CP is full" toggle — Pyre Charges are uncapped.
• Bank quality-of-life: a proper themed scrollbar, columns no longer shift when the scrollbar appears, and rarity glows stay contained to their own slots.

Eldara — Patch Notes

⚡ Performance

The headline of this patch. A full profiling pass found several systems that were quietly doing work every single frame — the impact was worst on high-refresh-rate monitors (144Hz and up), which is why some players saw lag even with every visual setting turned down. Results:

• Noticeably smoother fast combat and skilling, and cleaner scrolling.
• The combat loot box no longer rebuilds itself on every drop.
• Fixed: background dust particles were still drawing at full cost even when turned OFF or the window was minimized — they now properly stop.
• Still working out more optimization issues, please be patient (:

🧪 Quality of Life

• Auto-Dose can now be toggled from the combat screen — click the ON/OFF pill on the Auto-Dose chip. Perfect for saving Cultivating buffs for world bosses and hard dungeons instead of wasting them on easy fights.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Shiny gear is now always strictly better — a shiny piece's negative stats (such as a shield's magic-defence penalty) now improve instead of deepening.
• Collection Log now credits bones burned by the Bone Grinder and offline cremation, which were being skipped.
• Mastery tooltip — the per-rank kill/run counter no longer disappears after you Prestige; it shows your progress all the way from Mastery X to XX.
• The green "active style" indicator now follows your combat style when a weapon swap auto-changes it (e.g. equipping a staff mid-fight).
• Removed stray emojis from the dungeon "Room cleared" log message.
• During the main quests, some quest NPCs' icons weren't showing, now are.

⚖️ Tuning

• Void Commission contract now requires Smithing 85 (was 90).

Eldara — Update

✨ New

• Monster Mastery extended to 20 with a second Prestige. Reaching Prestige II makes that monster (or dungeon) spawn Shiny twice as often, on top of the ×2 rewards — and it earns a distinct radiant ✦✦ badge.
• Speed-upgrade Tiers 6–8 for the slow processing skills — Fletcher's Knife, Jeweler's Loupe, Eternal Tinderbox, Master Chef's Apron, Smith's Bellows and Thief's Gloves now reach −40% action time.

⚖️ Changes

• Rebirth now resets gathering tools (pickaxe/axe/rod), like a brand-new character. Pets, upgrades, monster prestige and faction reputation still carry over.
• Wanderer's Mastery set now uses Crimson Leather Body in place of Void Plate, making it a coherent ranged set instead of pairing a bow with melee armour.

🔧 Fixes

• Offline arrow fletching now resumes on return instead of stopping.
• Combat floating XP now displays the full amount including the Rebirth bonus (the XP was always granted — only the shown number was off).
• Chests can no longer be bought multiple times by holding an autoclicker on the confirm button.
• Multi-style monsters such as Ignarath now show accurate Monster Damage — the worst case across all their attack styles, updating with your gear.

Eldara — Update

✨ New Features

• Buy Custom Amount — right-click any material, log, food, or ammo bundle in the shop (or use the new "✎ Buy custom amount" link) to purchase exactly how many you want at once. Includes a themed quantity picker with 10 / 50 / 100 / 1,000 / Max presets and a live gold total.
• Offline Cremation & Cultivation — both skills now continue training while the game is closed, matching every other skill (their pets can now be found offline too). No more leaving the game running just to grind bones or crops.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Trinity of the Realm achievement no longer stays stuck at 0/3 — it now shows your true Void Trophy progress with a working progress bar.
• Mythic Secret drops now display the Luck / Rebirth-boosted drop chance like every other drop. (The boost was always being applied on the roll — only the displayed number was missing it.)
• World Boss fights now show your active Salt buff timer on the boss screen.
• Collection now counts items stored in your backpacks — a spare Hollow Tyrant Helm (or anything) tucked in a bag will unlock its Collection entry. Open the Collection tab once to backfill.
• Cultivating (Level 100) — the Processing tab now draws herbs directly from your bank.

🎛️ Tweaks

• Gathering-only House buffs (such as Verdant Flourish) no longer appear in the combat buff tray — they still run and still show on the relevant skill panels.
• The Level 80 Smithing passive is now listed in your Stats & Bonuses panel (+2 Attack/Defence per equipped piece) so its effect is visible.

🛠️ Fixes & Tweaks

Rebirth

• Rebirth now properly resets your run — no more keeping everything or rebirthing again instantly. Upgrades, tools, monster prestige, pets & house reputation still carry over.
• Fixed faction reputation ballooning after rebirth.
• Fixed backpacks vanishing after rebirth.

Skills

• Hunting Skill-Speed Boon now actually speeds up skilling (it displayed the reduction but ran at normal speed).
• Salts now stack — run different salts at once; re-eating the same salt extends its timer.
• Corrected salt descriptions (no bones required).
• Added Lv 100 mastery titles for Thieving and Hunting.

Combat

• Fixed the combat page occasionally loading blank with no monsters.
• Diamond Arrows now drop in proper stacks from World Bosses. (Sorry about this annoying one)

🛠️ Bug Fixes & Balance

⚔️ World Bosses

• Diamond Arrows now drop in proper stacks (100–300) from Seraphel instead of a single arrow.
• Void Trophies (the 3 secret World Boss trophies) eased from 1-in-10,000 to 1-in-500 — they can drop, they were just extremely rare.
• World Boss max-hit now displays the true worst case across all of a boss's attack styles, fixing multi-style bosses (e.g. Ignarath) that could hit harder than their card showed.

🔥 Skills

• Ancient Surge now shows and applies while cremating bones.
• Faction bonuses (e.g. Verdant Bloom) now show their real name in the skill panel's speed breakdown instead of a generic "World event".

🎯 Hunting

• Skill-Speed Boon now lasts a full 24 hours per purchase (was 10 minutes).
• Accepting a dungeon contract now actually runs the dungeon instead of reverting to single-monster targeting under Auto-Accept.

💍 Crafting

• Jewelry ingot costs rebalanced down — rings and amulets required more ingots than a full set of armor.

⚡ Performance

• Ambient background effects now pause while the game is minimised or in the background, and their blur is lighter — noticeably less CPU/GPU load and heat when idle.

House Store Update — Stacking, Visibility & Fixes

New

• House events now stack. Run several at once — each is tracked with its own independent timer.
• No more Exalted lock. The member-exclusive events (War Drums, Wilt, Forge-Surge) no longer require Exalted standing — any sworn member of the House can buy them at any reputation.
• Keep paying to extend an active event. Re-buying a running event now adds its full duration onto the clock, so you can pour as much gold as you like into a single bonus. The store card shows the live countdown and the extend price together, e.g. ● 6:30 · +75k.

Improvements

• Active House events now appear in the World Events section on the Home screen with live countdowns, right next to Celestial Meteors and World Bosses.
• Event timers roll over to an Xh Ym format once they climb past an hour, so heavily-extended buffs read cleanly instead of showing hundreds of minutes.

Fixes

• Purchasing a House event no longer scrolls the Factions page back to the top — your scroll position is preserved.

Eldara Update — Faction Rework, House Stores & Cremation Fixes

⚔️ Faction Combat Rework

Every House now grants a permanent combat identity that stays useful even after your skills are maxed:

• Ashen Legion → +Damage
• Verdant Circle → +Max HP
• Gilded Hammer → +Defence

Sworn members get the full bonus (up to +25% at max standing); non-members get a weaker version (up to +5%). You hold one oath, so you're strong in your House's stat and lightly buffed in the other two. Note: combat damage is now tied to Ashen membership, not rep alone — if you built Ashen standing but swore elsewhere, your damage bonus drops, but you gain your own House's identity (HP or Defence). Dedicated Ashen members are unchanged.

🛒 New: House Store (Faction Shop)

A gold sink in each House's page — spend gold to call that House's timed events. Each shows in your combat HUD with a live countdown.

• General (Recognized): Ashen Muster (+20% Combat XP) · Verdant Flourish (+20% Gathering/Cultivating XP) · Gilded Bonanza (+20% Gold)
• Member-exclusive (Exalted + sworn): War Drums (enemy Max Hit −10%) · Wilt (enemy Max HP −10%) · Forge-Surge (+5% of your Max Hit added to your Min Hit)

🔥 Cremation & Ancient Surge

• Ancient Surge now speeds up the bone you're already burying, not just the next one.
• Ancient Surge now appears while cremating — no need to start another skill first.
• The Bone Grinder can now drop the Cremation pet while it burns bones.

🩹 Fixes

• Offline dungeons now overflow loot to your Bank when your inventory fills, instead of piling up and stalling.

Eldara Update — Pyre Salts Stack, Sell X & a Big Polish Pass

✨ New Features

• Pyre Salts now stack. Use the same salt again and its duration adds on top of the time remaining — Ash 30m → 60m → 90m, and so on. The active-aura timer climbs to match.
• Salts no longer waste while you're offline. Your aura pauses while the game is closed and resumes with the exact time left when you return — and the Offline Gains screen now shows it ("aura paused while away — Xm still remaining").
• Market "Sell X". Right-click an item in the Market and choose Sell X… to open a custom-amount picker: plus/minus steppers, a slider, quick presets (1 / 10 / 100 / 1,000 / Half / All), and a live "you'll receive" total that exactly matches the final payout.

⚔️ World Boss

• Your attack-style buttons (Melee / Range / Magic / Defence), plus the Pyre and Spellbook pickers and the loot box, now appear during World Boss fights — you're no longer locked into one style mid-fight.

🩹 Fixes & Polish

• Auto-Eat now heals immediately and fully the instant you reach your set HP threshold — no delayed bites, no dying with food still in the slot.
• Cremating now shows its green "in-use" indicator while burying.
• The Max Hit tooltip no longer gets cut off at the top of the combat panel.
• Gold totals display cleanly, and very small values / drop chances no longer show as "0".
• World Boss Diamond Arrow now drops in correct stack sizes.
• Shiny Ignarath / void gear now shows the correct rarity.
• Shiny smithed and crafted gear now shares its set bonus, and the in-game wiki reflects it.
• Achievement reward gear is no longer scaled/downgraded incorrectly.
• The "all skills to 100" achievement now counts all 17 skills.
• Offline boss kills now count toward stats and achievements; offline thieving applies all of your perks.
• Steam achievements you'd already earned now unlock retroactively.

Eldara — Restoration

Hardcore permadeath is back — now fair

Your character only resets if you're out of food in a fight & die (make sure to keep auto-eat enabled or spam food!!. That's the whole rule.

• Keep Auto-Eat enabled and stocked and you're safe — a last-ditch auto-eat now feeds from your inventory AND backpack before any death is counted, so a wipe only happens when you genuinely ran out of supplies.
• A story chapter that auto-pops mid-fight pauses combat — you can't be killed while reading it.
• Offline deaths run an accurate survival simulation: auto-eat pulls food from your bag, heals for the true amount, and your damage reduction (defence levels, set bonuses, pet) is applied — so you only fall while away if you truly starved. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF INCONSISTENCIES FOR HC PLAYERS AND WE TRULY APOLOGIZE FOR THAT, PLEASE REMAIN USING THE BUG REPORTS SECTION IF PROBLEMS PERSIST! We originally thought to turn the feature of until it was COMPLETELY gone but we realized you guys took an issue with that immediately so it'll be done within the fly!

Eldara — Update

Hardcore is no longer permadeath

Dying in Hardcore no longer resets your character. You now recover the same way Normal mode does — online and offline. // This one might be a little controversial, especially if you wanted a risk-factor, however a lot of users were getting reset randomly without dying ( a lot of dead code) so we've decided to turn it off completely. the only thing that should happen when you die is you stop idling, thats the punishment, stay alive to keep idling!

• Hardcore keeps its challenge: −50% XP, −50% Gold, and the Ironman-only market.
• The mode choice is still permanent for that character — only the death-wipe is gone.

Thieving perks now work while you're away

Offline progression now mirrors the live game for thieving:

• Sticky Fingers bonus gold now triggers on offline steals.
• Pinchpaws pet gold and the Pickpocket's Charm / Lv95 Phantom Haul double-loot apply offline too.
• Stolen loot fills your assigned backpacks first, exactly like live.

Display fixes

• Low-value items no longer display "Value 0" (for example, Copper Coin).
• Drop chances under 1% now show their true value (0.2%, 0.05%, and so on) instead of "0%".

Thank you for the continued reports — keep them coming.

Eldara — Fixes & Quality of Life

Combat & World Bosses

• Hardcore safety: story chapters now pause combat when they appear mid-fight, so you can't take damage — or lose a hardcore character — while a story screen is covering the action.
• World bosses spawn reliably again: fixed a state where the natural (~hourly) spawns could stop firing entirely. The spawner now self-heals, so a stuck boss can no longer block future spawns.

Loot & Storage

• Mastery Channeling respects your backpacks: at Level 100, gathered logs/fish/ore now route to your assigned bag first, and only auto-bank if no bag is assigned.
• Offline monster loot now follows the same path as live kills — into your backpacks, then overflowing to the bank when full (no more clogged slots).
• Achievement reward gear now routes into your backpack like every other item.
• Items no longer skip the first inventory slot when your gold has been moved elsewhere.

Collection

• Shiny gear now unlocks its collection entry — finding a shiny counts toward the base item, and entries retroactively unlock for shinies you already own.

Economy

• Wanderer's Luck & Gold Magnet now boost contract gold as well — previously they only applied to monster kills.

Performance & UI

• Fixed the 0.0s-timer lag: at extreme speed buffs the screen flooded with floating numbers. Those are now capped — your gather/craft speed is unchanged, only the unreadable number-spam is trimmed.
• Live material counts: the input counts on processing cards (Firemaking, Smithing, Cooking, and more) now tick down in real time instead of only updating when you leave and re-open the tab.

Hunting Store Update + Fixes

New Hunting Store Options

• Beastmaster's Call — doubles your skill-pet find chance (stacks with Beastcaller's Whistle).
• Skill-Speed Boon — every skill works 25% faster for 10 minutes. Re-buyable, with a live on-screen timer.
• Echo of Ages I & II — extend every Ancient Surge to 30s, then a full 60s (up from 10s).
• Hunter's Bounty — rare drops (5% chance or lower) roll 5x more often, shown directly on every monster & World-Boss loot table.
• Expedition Charter — every World-Boss drop rolls at 1.5x chance.
• Sticky Fingers — 30% chance on a successful steal to lift bonus gold (50–500, scaled by the stall).

Note: Extended Expedition I now costs 1,900 Hunting Points, as Sticky Fingers takes the former 800 slot.

Bug Fixes

• The Crystal Hollow's void ore now correctly drops Voidstone — it stacks and carries full legendary value. Existing stuck stacks repair themselves on next load.
• Gear sets now glow the correct combat style — a Magic loadout shows "Magic", not "Melee".
• The Collection "encountered" total now credits items produced by bonus-item passives.
• Houses will re-invite you after a broken oath, so you can no longer be locked out of joining one.
• Hardcore: the "-50% XP/Gold" tag no longer overlaps the skill stats.
• Polished in-game tooltips (Max Hit breakdown, bank tabs).

Stability

• Fixed a rare cause of lost characters (oversized custom avatars exceeding the save limit). Saves are now better protected.

⚒️ Eldara — Balance Correction & Fixes

A correction to last update's skill-leveling changes, plus a couple of bug fixes.

⚖️ Balance

• Smithing, Crafting & Fletching leveling — reverted and buffed. Last update slowed these three skills down, and that was our mistake.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Withdrawing gold from the bank no longer shuffles your inventory. Pulling coins out of the bank used to shove every item down a slot, reshuffling your whole grid. Your layout now stays exactly where you left it, and gold returns to its own slot.

🎯 Quality of Life

• World Boss loot now tells you where it went. World Boss drops land in your Loot Box — this is by design, so a full inventory can never cost you apex loot mid-fight — but the game now states this clearly on every kill and reminds you to claim the drops from the Monsters or Dungeons tab. (The loot was never lost; it was simply sitting unclaimed in the box.)
• Thieving Lv 45 perk relabeled to "+10% thieving loot chance." It only ever boosted thieving stalls — never combat or other drops — so the old "on every drop" wording was misleading.

Thank you for the reports and feedback — keep them coming, and enjoy!

🔥 Eldara — Balance & Polish Update

A hefty update this time: Firemaking becomes the game's XP engine, every skill now levels at a consistent pace, Hardcore gets fairer, and a stack of bugs got squashed. Your saved progress is untouched — only the numbers behind future actions changed.

🔥 Firemaking Overhaul

Firemaking is now the global XP accelerator it was always meant to be — leveling it speeds up EVERY skill.

• Level passive is a true global multiplier: Lv 10 +10%, Lv 50 +25%, Lv 80 +40%, Lv 95 +50% to ALL XP gains.
• Lit fires compound on top of that: Warm Soul (×1.05), Elder Flame (×1.15) and Inferno (×1.20) now multiply your full XP total instead of adding flat — all three lit at Lv 95 is roughly +96% all-XP.

⚖️ Skill Leveling Parity

Leveling speed used to vary wildly — some skills took 3–4× longer than others for no real reason. Every gathering & processing skill now reaches Level 100 in about the same time (~160 hours of active play):

• Fishing & Cooking — about 2× faster
• Woodcutting & Firemaking — about 40% faster
• Mining & Thieving — slightly faster
• Cultivating — much faster (big buff to a very slow skill)
• Smithing, Crafting & Fletching — brought down; these were by far the fastest and are now in line with the rest

Your accumulated XP is unchanged — only the XP earned per action was rebalanced.

🛡️ Hardcore

• Hardcore halves XP, and the leftover half used to always round down (a small action could even floor to 0). XP now rounds half-up and never pays 0 — a small but steady gain over a full run. (Gold already worked this way.)

🔧 Bug Fixes

• World Boss — a full satchel no longer blocks you from engaging. Previously a full inventory silently stopped you from fighting the boss, and a restart didn't help. You can now fight it regardless; any loot routes safely to your Bank.
• Faction oaths — fixed the "no invite from any House" lockout. If an oath invitation ever got buried (most common in Fast mode), it could permanently and silently block every future House invitation. Affected players get their invite back automatically on next load.
• No item ever renders as a loot crate again — items always show their own art, so Void Ore (and other reported items) look correct. Also fixed the crafting pop-up flashing a flawed diamond and tools showing a raw emoji in the collection log.
• Dungeon auto-repeat now re-accepts its hunting contract between clears, so contract XP keeps flowing instead of stalling.

🎯 Quality of Life

• Set bonus tooltips now show which tier actually applies. Only your highest set tier counts, so lower tiers are now marked "superseded" instead of misleadingly glowing green as if active.
• Hover your Max Hit for a full damage breakdown — base → pet → set bonus → spell → final — so you can see every bonus is already factored into the number.
• Removed the "Echoes Remembered" counter from the combat screen.

Thank you for all the reports and feedback — keep them coming, and enjoy the update! 🛡️

Gear Ladder Fixes, Stacking Backpacks & QoL

This update corrects how armour-set bonuses stack, makes backpack perks add up, and smooths out crafting, selling, and the Cremation panel.

⚖️ Balance & Gear

• Set bonuses now apply only your highest equipped tier — each tier's listed number is the full bonus. Previously the tiers secretly stacked and multiplied, which let lower-tier sets out-scale Apex and even Mythic gear. Note: if you were benefiting from the stacked bonus, your damage drops to the listed value.
• Craftable void sets pulled just below the Apex World Boss sets, so boss drops remain best-in-slot.
• Your active set damage bonus now displays on Max Hit, so the % is visible.

✨ Quality of Life

• Backpack perks now stack across every pack you own — the full set grants +12h offline cap, +20% gold, and +10% skilling XP (previously only the highest-tier pack's perk applied).
• Crafting & smithing auto-craft finishes the whole stack instead of leaving the final item to be made manually.
• Auto-Dose only triggers while you're in combat, so it no longer wastes potions while idle or skilling.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Hover and inspect sell prices now show the true net you receive after the merchant tax (they previously showed the pre-tax price). The tax now applies consistently to all items, including cheap stacks.
• The Blacksmith refine screen was over-reporting weapon attack — it now matches the gear tab.
• The Cremation panel no longer flickers a hovered item while another skill gathers in the background.

Thanks for playing, and for all the bug reports — keep them coming in our Discord!

Offline Dungeons, Bag Consumables & Fixes

This update lands two of the most-requested features — dungeons that farm while you're offline, and using food/potions straight from your Backpack — plus World Boss gear buffs and a stack of fixes.

🆕 New Features

• Offline dungeon farming — Dungeons now play out fully while you're away. Every clear grants its loot, bones, gear, mastery, and dungeon-contract progress. Auto-Repeat farms for the whole offline window; with it off, your current run finishes once. (Hunting Points stay online-only.)
• Use consumables from the Backpack — Eating food and drinking potions now pulls from your bag when your inventory is empty (inventory is always spent first). Bagged cooked food shows up in the combat Quick-eat bar, and right-clicking a food or drug in the Backpack now offers Eat / Use directly.

⚖️ Balance

• World Boss sets buffed — 3-piece set bonuses now deal significantly more damage with stronger defensive and utility effects.
• Mythic Void sets retuned to stay clearly stronger than World Boss sets.
• XP past level 100 now keeps climbing to 100M for long-term progress (reaching 100 itself is unchanged).
• Wanderer's Mastery is now a Range set, matching the bow it equips.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• World Boss Magic and Prayer pickers now open during the fight.
• Bank deposits and withdrawals now save instantly instead of waiting for autosave.
• Offline gathering at Level 100 now banks correctly via Mastery Channeling.
• Celestial Meteor no longer targets already-maxed skills.
• Removed the unusable legacy "void ore" from banks (merged into Voidstone).
• Codex search now matches hyphenated terms like "off-hand".
• Shiny gear "Obtained From" now lists World Boss, dungeon, and crafting sources.
• The sell log now shows the hardcore gold reduction so the totals add up.
• Tavern reward items now route into the Backpack consistently.

✨ Quality of Life

• The Adventure Log pauses auto-scroll on hover so buttons stop sliding out from under your cursor.

Thanks for playing, and for all the bug reports

🐾 Pet Balance, Prayers & a Fix Pass

Balance

• Pet drops are now balanced across every skill. The Firemaking and Cremation pets were dramatically slower than the rest (a Firemaking pet on elder logs was ~15× harder than Mining/Woodcutting/etc). All 17 pets now sit on the same difficulty curve.
• Iron Will is now +18% Melee Attack (it was mistakenly set to +15% Defense). This fills the high-tier melee attack prayer slot to match Range's Eagle Eye.

Bug Fixes

• Flawed Ruby from monster/dungeon drops now gives the real, usable gem with its proper icon (it was showing a loot-crate icon and couldn't be used in crafting). Existing stranded stacks are auto-converted on load.
• Elder Salts (and all pyre salts) now drop while burning logs offline — overnight burning no longer yields zero salts.
• Bank: depositing or withdrawing items no longer shuffles the rest of your inventory around — items keep their slot, so your bag stops "moving."
• Backpacks no longer flicker when sitting in the bank.
• Offline dungeon contracts: auto-farming a dungeon contract overnight now keeps the contract active (re-accepts it) instead of leaving you with an empty slot you'd refill with a random monster contract.

Quality of Life

• The Grand Backpack's +10% skilling XP now appears in the "Active Bonuses" XP breakdown, so you can finally see where that bonus comes from.
• Bank placeholders now also appear when an item is fully consumed by crafting (not just by withdrawing), preserving your tab layout.
• Beastmaster ("Find every pet") now correctly requires 17 pets — there are 17, one per skill (it was asking for 16).

🛠 Tools, Hunting & a Bug Sweep

New & Improved

• Tools are now repeatable — buy pickaxes, axes and rods as many times as you like. Sell one, upgrade, or accidentally lose one, and you can always make another. No more one-and-done tools.
• Hunting — late-game contracts finally pay off. Contract Hunting XP now scales with the target's difficulty instead of a flat rate, so a Dragon hunt is worth far more than a Rat hunt. The 60→99 grind is dramatically shorter.

Bug Fixes

• Gear Sets: copying a loadout onto another set no longer duplicates the copied gear or deletes what was already in that slot.
• Achievements: the reward shown is now exactly what you receive — high-level players see the tier-scaled item (e.g. Silver Shield) instead of the base one.
• World Boss panel: drop chances now display your luck boost (rebirth + Luck buff). The luck was always applied to the rolls — now the numbers actually show it.
• Collection Log: tools you owned earlier (and sold or upgraded) now show as discovered instead of locked.
• Item Lock: locking an item now keeps your FULL stack through "Deposit All" — ideal for buff items you want to hold onto. (Deposit All now deposits everything that's unlocked.)
• Floating Numbers (renamed from "Floating Combat Numbers"): turning it off now hides ALL floating popups — damage, XP, gold, drops, across combat and skills — for a clean screen. The fixed in-combat loot list stays.
• Reduce Motion: the Ancient Surge timer ring now counts down smoothly even when your operating system's reduce-motion setting is on.
• The equipped fishing rod no longer flickers in the gear screen when you change other equipment.

🎣 Fishing Rods & Offline Overhaul

New: Fishing Rods

• A brand-new craftable tool line — 7 tiers from Bronze to Void, forged at the Skiller Workshop.
• Equip one in its own slot right beside your pickaxe and axe — run all three tools at once.
• Equipped rods speed up every catch, live AND offline, with the bonus shown on the card.
• Fully tracked in the Collection Log (new Tools category) and they count toward rebirth completion.

Balance: The Traveller grows with you

• The wandering merchant's stock now scales to your level — no more bronze gear on offer when you're in endgame plate. Still fairly priced and gated.

Offline Progression — now it all counts

• Time away now credits Achievements, Contracts, Mastery, Main-Story progress, brewing, and arrow fletching — the things live play already did.
• Offline kill gold now receives your Prestige (×2) and faction gold boosts.
• Switching characters now properly grants offline progress to the character you switch to.

Quality of Life

• Bank: deposit a bag's entire contents straight into the bank from the bank screen.
• Locked items are protected — they can't be moved or sold by accident, and a bank deposit always leaves at least one behind.
• Adventure Log chests you buy now drop into your backpack instead of clogging your satchel.
• Auto-Eat now warns you when your chosen food is too weak to keep up, instead of quietly burning the stack.
• Wording: skill speed bonuses now read "94% Reduced Duration" (clearer than "94% Faster").

Bug Fixes

• Gear Sets: copying a loadout onto another set no longer duplicates or deletes gear.
• Rebirth no longer switches Auto-Eat off.
• Auto-Eat no longer deletes the food stack in your food slot.
• Floating combat damage numbers are visible again (and respect the toggle).
• World Boss: the loot box refreshes the moment the fight ends, and the Abyss-Forged Ingot drops as intended.

Eldara Update

📦 Loot Crates — glow-up

Crates felt lame at endgame (bulk mats + gear you'd outgrown). Two changes:

• Gear scales to your tier — a crate's gear now tracks your progress instead of the crate's fixed tier. A maxed player's Wanderer's Supply gives emerald-class gear instead of bronze, the Veteran's gives diamond, etc. Better crates still give better gear, and nothing drops below the crate's own tier.
• Shiny / Pet jackpot — every open now has a tier-scaling chance (common ~0.4% → Void ~5%) to drop a Shiny gear piece or a pet.

The inspect page and hover tooltip now show the scaled pool + jackpot odds.

🎒 Backpack perks — now visible everywhere

The tier perks (offline cap / +gold / +skilling XP) were live but hard to see. They now show on the shop card, the item inspector, the bag panel, and the offline "welcome back" screen.

🔧 Fixes

• Rebirth luck now shows on drop tables — your permanent rebirth luck was always boosting the actual rolls, but the monster/dungeon drop tables only displayed it while a temporary Luck buff was active. They now show the rebirth-boosted % (with a ✦ marker).

Thanks for the bug reports and feedback — keep them coming.

Eldara Update

A big one — a save-loss fix, a backpack rework, balance passes, and windowed-mode improvements.

🛟 Important Save Fix

• Switching characters no longer overwrites the other one. A Steam Cloud sync issue could, after a character switch, restore your previously-played character over the one you switched to ("all progress lost except playtime"). Fixed. If you were affected, your old save can be recovered from Settings → Data → Restore a Backup.

🎒 Backpacks — now with perks (will be better in terms of storage, just working on it! please be patient!)

Each tier grants an always-on perk on top of its storage (cumulative up to your best bag, shown on the shop card):

• Basic — +4h offline cap
• Adventurer's — +4h offline cap & +10% gold
• Grand — +4h offline cap, +10% gold & +10% skilling XP

⚖️ Balance

• Smithing & Crafting XP normalized — every piece in a tier now gives equal XP per material, so no recipe is a trap (heavy pieces were quietly worse per ore/scrap).
• Achievement rewards scale to your tier — fixed mid-tier gear now arrives at your current tier (e.g. a Void Helm instead of a Ruby Helm at endgame). Apex/unique rewards unchanged.
• Hunting pet drop rate raised — the Tracker pet was punishingly rare per contract.
• Loot crate prices halved across all tiers.

🖥️ Windowed Mode

• Window Size presets (1280×720 / 1600×900 / 1920×1080) in Settings. Picking a size drops the window — sized to fit — onto the monitor your cursor is on, so single-monitor players can shrink it and multi-monitor players can move the game to their other screen.

🔧 Fixes

• World boss drops show their real icons on the victory screen (they were all rendering as a flawed diamond).
• Combat loot box keeps its scroll position — no more snapping to the top on every hit.
• "Trinity of the Realm" achievement now counts — the World Boss trophies weren't being recorded, so it could never complete.
• Fletching +15% bow-sell perk is now shown in the Market (it was working, just invisible).
• Lich (Undying Lichlord) set now flags its damage bonus as magic-only, so it's clear why it's inactive on a non-magic build.

Thanks for the bug reports and feedback — keep them coming.

Eldara Update

🏦 Bank

• Placeholders — withdrawing all of an item now leaves a faded slot that holds its spot (and stays in the right tab), so your layout doesn't collapse. Left-click a placeholder to clear it.
• Search highlights tabs — searching the bank now highlights every tab containing a match, so you can see where an item lives at a glance.
• "All but 1" — new option to withdraw/deposit everything except one.

🔧 Fixes & Polish

• Cremation progress stays visible — the burn timer used to vanish after the first bone for every tier except Ashen. It now shows the whole time, for every bone.
• Live "have" counts on skill cards — every recipe now shows how many of each material you own, updating in real time (including the skill you're actively training). No more switching tabs to refresh a stale number.
• Accurate "consumed" popup — the crafting floaty now shows the real discounted material count, not the base amount.
• Dungeon contract on the battle screen — your active contract progress now shows while you're fighting in the dungeon.

Thanks to everyone sending bug reports and feedback — keep them coming.

Eldara Update

A new comfort setting, offline progression, balance passes, and a stack of fixes from your reports. Thank you all!

🆕 New

• Windowed Mode — a toggle in Settings to swap between fullscreen and windowed, so you don't need to know F11 / Alt+Enter. It remembers your choice and stays in sync however you switch.

🌙 Offline Progression

• Bone Grinder runs offline — leave it on with bones in your pack and it keeps burning them while you're away (Cremation XP + Pyre Charges), highest tier first.
• Auto-Farm runs offline — your farm now keeps harvesting AND replanting the whole time you're gone instead of maturing a single crop. Spends a seed per replant and stops when you run out.

Both are capped by your offline limit and the bones/seeds you actually have — same as leaving the game open. Hunting Points still don't accrue offline.

⚖️ Balance

• Smithing is quicker — every smelt (ore → ingot) is ~25% faster. Smelting was sitting at ~55% of mining's XP/hr across the board; it's now ~75%, with the tier order unchanged. (e.g. Emerald Ingot 18k → 24k XP/hr.)
• Shiny gear completes regular sets — a single shiny piece now counts toward the normal set bonus, so it's never wasted or forcing you back to the plain piece. Wearing the full shiny set still grants the stronger all-shiny bonus.
• Two quests un-wasted — The Emo War and Deadly Dish required level 100 in skills they then rewarded XP in (wasted at cap). Lowered those requirements to 95.

🛠️ Fixes

• "Prosperous Market" no longer sticks forever — a faction sell perk was keeping the timed banner up permanently. The perk still works; it just stops pretending to be a timed event.
• Quest panel no longer freezes on hover — timers and gathered-material counts keep ticking even while your cursor is over the board.
• Blacksmith refining reads your Bank — with the Quartermaster's Ledger, gear-upgrade materials now count what's stashed in your bank/bags like every other recipe.
• Ash Salts actually speeds up skilling — it showed in the tooltip but wasn't really applying. Fixed.
• XP / speed tooltips read true — quest XP boons now appear in the XP breakdown; the Woodcutting speed breakdown lists every bonus; the "% Faster" panel notes bonuses multiply (so six "-10%"s aren't "-60%"); and a shiny piece's tooltip now reads as part of your set's 3/3.

Eldara Patch — Quality of Life & Save Safety

🎒 Bank / Backpack — Custom Amounts

• Right-click any item and choose "custom…" to type any amount to withdraw, deposit, or stash — no more spam-clicking "Withdraw 100" to move a 3,000 stack.
• Quick-pick chips (100 / 1,000 / 10,000 / All) in the prompt for fast common amounts.
• Backpack menus now match the bank, including the higher 1,000 / 10,000 presets.

📦 Loot Box — Auto-Stack Fixes

• Fixed the Auto-Stack toggle disappearing: with it ON, the box stayed empty, so the button to turn it back OFF became unreachable and loot was force-sent to your inventory. The toggle is now always visible — even on an empty box — with a note explaining where your drops are going.
• Thieving loot now respects your backpacks: stolen items drop into a bag that holds that type, just like mining, fishing, and the other skills (previously it always went to your inventory).

💾 Save Safety

• Hardened cloud-save handling: a cloud sync now backs up your local save first, so a restore can never silently overwrite your progress. If anything ever looks off, your previous state is recoverable in Settings → Data → Restore.